Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Adelaide
- Educated at
- Unley High SchoolUniversity of AdelaideUniversity of Cambridge
- Awards
- 🏆 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi🏆 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering🏆 Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Ernest Rutherford
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Ian Stuart Falconer📖 Darcy Walker📖 Ernest William Titterton
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Trending topics shown first"We were able to discover two new kinds of atomic species, one was hydrogen of mass 3, unknown until that time, and the other helium of mass 3, also unknown. … We were able to show that heavy hydrogen …"
"I was a member of a group that was led by Niels Bohr, after the test in Alamogordo, that was very much opposed to the use of this new weapon on civilian cities. … But by and large we were in a minorit…"
"I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity … I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons,…"
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Timeline
1901
Born
Birth2000
Died
Death
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